People Quotes by Condoleezza Rice

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

— Condoleezza Rice

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

— Condoleezza Rice

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

— Condoleezza Rice

I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

— Condoleezza Rice

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

— Condoleezza Rice

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

— Condoleezza Rice

People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices.

— Condoleezza Rice

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans, Nobody, especially the president, would have…

— Condoleezza Rice

Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people…

— Condoleezza Rice

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

— Condoleezza Rice

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant…

— Condoleezza Rice

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people…

— Condoleezza Rice

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

— Condoleezza Rice

When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing…

— Condoleezza Rice

If it is not possible for me to go somewhere and to be willing to encounter people with different views, then I'm…

— Condoleezza Rice

We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the…

— Condoleezza Rice

I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked…

— Condoleezza Rice

This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of…

— Condoleezza Rice

Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important…

— Condoleezza Rice

Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You…

— Condoleezza Rice

I have constantly told people that I was Secretary of State and I was not going to get into a partisan debate.…

— Condoleezza Rice

Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and…

— Condoleezza Rice

Your friends and your family, if you're close to them, they won't let you get too far from who you were or…

— Condoleezza Rice

What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it…

— Condoleezza Rice

I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his…

— Condoleezza Rice

The moral case is, people say, "Oh they're not ready for democracy," but that's something someone who lives in a democracy would…

— Condoleezza Rice

You are American, whether you profess Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, whether you adhere to Islam, or whether you believe in nothing at all.…

— Condoleezza Rice

I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us…

— Condoleezza Rice

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

— Condoleezza Rice

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

— Condoleezza Rice

I have enormous respect for people who do run for office.

— Condoleezza Rice

I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like…

— Condoleezza Rice

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we…

— Condoleezza Rice

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that…

— Condoleezza Rice

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked…

— Condoleezza Rice

People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic…

— Condoleezza Rice

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can…

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're…

— Condoleezza Rice

Multiethnic character of America is very attractive to people. They also see a place where you get ahead, not because of where…

— Condoleezza Rice